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Meta, Alphabet and Amazon , the leaders in online advertising, are all betting generative AI will eventually be core to their businesses. In May, Meta announced its AI Sandbox testing suite for companies to more easily use generative AI software to create background images and experiment with different advertising copy. However, Shaked said he's "not sold on the creative piece yet," regarding Meta's nascent foray into providing generative AI tools for advertisers. Jay Pattisall, an analyst at Forrester, said several major hurdles prevent generative AI from having a major immediate impact on the online ad industry. Stacy Reed, an online advertising and Facebook ads consultant, is currently incorporating generative AI into her daily work.
Persons: Sebastien Bozon, ChatGPT, Shane Rasnak, Rasnak, Cristina Lawrence, Lawrence, Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Caballero, Reynolds, Yarden Shaked, Shaked, Jay Pattisall, Forrester, Pattisall, Reddit, Scott McKelvey, OpenAI, McKelvey, that's, Meta, Stacy Reed, it's, Reed, they've, Ryan Reynolds Organizations: AFP, Getty, Facebook, Twitter, CNBC, Meta, Meta's, Georgetown University, Bloomberg News, Mint Mobile, Social Locations: Utah, San Francisco, Washington
July 7 (Reuters) - AI4Bharat, a start-up backed by Microsoft (MSFT.O), is raising $12 million from venture capital firms Peak XV and Lightspeed Venture to develop artificial intelligence-powered chatbots for Indian languages, according to three people familiar with the matter. Most seed rounds are usually up to $1 million to $2 million. AI4Bharat, Peak XV and Lightspeed did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. The investment is among the first from Peak XV Partners after rebranding from Sequoia Capital India and SEA following a split with its U.S.-based parent fund last month. Indian AI start-ups have raised $583 million this year, as of June, according to data from Venture Intelligence.
Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Nandan Nilekani, Rudder, Yuvraj Malik Organizations: Microsoft, Lightspeed Venture, Indian Institute of Technology, Infosys, National Payments Corp, XV Partners, Sequoia Capital, SEA, Venture Intelligence, Thomson Locations: Madras, India, Sequoia Capital India, Bengaluru
Tools like ChatGPT could raise fears about fewer teachers being used in schools, per an AI expert. Stuart Russell spoke to The Guardian about how traditional teaching roles could change. The education sector has been having a difficult time adapting to new AI tech. Speaking to The Guardian, AI expert Stuart Russell said the rising use of the technology could spark "reasonable" fears among those working in the education sector that fewer teachers, or possibly none at all, could be employed by schools. He added that he thought humans would still play a role but it could differ from traditional teaching duties.
Persons: Stuart Russell, Russell Organizations: Guardian, University of California, Good Global Summit, Oxford, Russell Group Locations: Berkeley, Geneva, Cambridge
To find her audience, North created a Facebook group, called Get US Citizenship, where she shared blog posts from her website. "Then you could write 10 blog posts on one topic cluster and another 10 blog posts around another cluster." She said that using affiliate platforms such as ShareASale helped keep affiliate marketing passive. Reach out to brands for partnershipsNorth said brand partnerships could be more lucrative than affiliate marketing. "It's more labor-intensive than affiliate marketing, but it's more tailored as well,"she said.
Persons: Samantha North, she'd, Jasper, ChatGPT, Bonds, Whitney Bonds, Jobs, North, who'd, ShareASale, Organizations: Union, Google, Facebook, North Locations: Portugal, Europe
Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky has said he thinks AI will significantly change Airbnb. Chesky said they are working to make an AI "concierge" that can learn about a user over time. But a program that can be the "ultimate AI concierge" and learn about you over time is more valuable to Airbnb. "The better we can understand you, the more we can be like the ultimate AI concierge pointing you to places, community, homes, experiences, and many more things." "Hopefully it's going to make you just think, 'Oh my God, their customer service is amazing,'" Chesky told Skift.
Persons: Brian Chesky, Chesky, , Airbnb, It's, we're, Sam Altman, Skift Organizations: Service, Bloomberg's Technology Locations: Silicon
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy doesn't believe the retail and cloud computing giant should be counted out of the artificial intelligence race just yet. Jassy has said Amazon intends to invest in AI across the company, and that AI programs have the potential to improve "virtually every customer experience." Earlier this year, AWS unveiled a generative AI service called Bedrock, where clients can use language models from Amazon and other startups to develop their own chatbots and image-generation services. AWS has also developed its own AI-specific chips, called Inferentia and Trainium, which aim to make it easier for developers to run large AI language models in the cloud. It's going up against Nvidia , whose powerful semiconductors have dominated the market for AI chips.
Persons: Andy Jassy doesn't, Jassy, ChatGPT, Jon Fortt Organizations: CNBC, Microsoft, Google, Web Services, AWS, Nvidia
Two authors filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last week alleging that their copyrighted books were used to train the company's artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, without their consent. They allege the summaries are "only possible" if ChatGPT was trained on their books, which would be a violation of copyright law. OpenAI doesn't reveal what precise data was used for training ChatGPT, but the company said it generally crawled the web, including the use of archived books and Wikipedia. The complaint references exhibits of the summaries that ChatGPT generated, and it notes that the chatbot gets some things wrong. "At no point did ChatGPT reproduce any of the copyright management information Plaintiffs included with their published works," the complaint said.
Persons: OpenAI, Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad, ChatGPT, Tremblay, Awad, Sam Altman Organizations: Microsoft, San Locations: San Francisco, San Francisco federal
It seemed to be a game-changer, Mr. Austin said. So in January, AT&T tried a product from Microsoft called Azure OpenAI Services that lets businesses build their own A.I.-powered chatbots. AT&T used it to create a proprietary A.I. assistant, Ask AT&T, which helps its developers automate their coding process. “Once they realize what it can do, they love it,” Mr. Austin said.
Persons: Mark Austin, ChatGPT, Austin, ” Mr Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI Services
Learning platform startup Kinnu has raised $6.5 million from LocalGlobe and Cavalry Ventures. Kinnu aims to help users improve in areas like long-term memory and the rate at which they learn. A startup using generative AI to build a learning app to help people improve in areas like long-term memory and the rate at which they learn has raised $6.5 million in fresh funds. London-based Kinnu bills itself as a gamified learning platform for those who want to learn generalist knowledge. The platform is currently popular among adult generalist learners, "who love learning for the sake of learning," Kahler told Insider.
Persons: Chris Kahler, chatbots, Kahler, Kinnu, Tom Hulme, Guy Podjarny, Rene Rechtman Organizations: Cavalry Ventures, UK, Spark, Google Ventures, Moonbug Entertainment Locations: LocalGlobe, London
In the Age of A.I., Tech’s Little Guys Need Big Friends
  + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
From Hewlett-Packard to Google, the tales of bootstrapped companies that have turned into giants has inspired generations of entrepreneurs. In 2019, Aiden Gomez and Nick Frosst left Google to create an A.I. Several months later, they went back to Google and asked if it would sell them the enormous computing power they would need to build their own A.I. The big companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, he added, are controlling the chips. “They’re controlling the computing power,” he said.
Persons: Google Bard, Aiden Gomez, Nick Frosst, Sundar Pichai, , David Katz, Cohere’s, They’re, Organizations: Hewlett, Packard, Google, today’s, Radical Ventures, Microsoft Locations: Toronto
Several uncensored and loosely moderated chatbots have sprung to life in recent months under names like GPT4All and FreedomGPT. Many were created for little or no money by independent programmers or teams of volunteers, who successfully replicated the methods first described by A.I. Most groups work from existing language models, only adding extra instructions to tweak how the technology responds to prompts. The uncensored chatbots offer tantalizing new possibilities. Independent A.I.
Persons: A.I, , Oren Etzioni, “ They’re Organizations: Big Tech, A.I, University of Washington, Allen Institute for A.I
Experts told Insider that Gen Z was well positioned to capitalize on the AI boom. That could supercharge Gen Z careers, as generative AI is expected to affect millions of jobs, and companies are already seeking talent to help navigate those changes. "From that perspective, Gen Z should be in a good position to capitalize on the AI boom." Gen Zers are using AI for research and brainstormingLais Silva, a Gen Z content manager at a social-media startup, said she'd essentially replaced Google with ChatGPT. Older generations could have a competitive edge over Gen Z because of experience — if they're open to learning AI toolsThe AI revolution isn't guaranteed to be a boon for Gen Z workers.
Persons: Z, , AJ Eckstein, He's, He'll, Eckstein isn't, they'd, Gen Zers, ChatGPT, Carl Benedikt Frey, Eckstein, Lais Silva, she'd, Morgan Young, chatbots, She'll, Oxford's Frey, Columbia's Netzer, Gen Organizations: Service, Fortune, Columbia Business School, Pew, Oxford University, Google
How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue
  + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Bernhard Warner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Alexa had dropped the “r” in “party,” making the word sound flat, like pah-tee. The technologists are part of a team at Amazon working on a challenging area of data science known as voice disentanglement. Tackling voice disentanglement involves far more than grasping vocabulary and syntax. Such work may eventually converge with an explosion of “generative A.I.,” a technology that enables chatbots to generate their own responses, researchers said. At the same time, voice assistants like Alexa and Apple’s Siri will become more conversational, potentially rekindling consumer interest in a tech segment that had seemingly stalled, analysts said.
Persons: Tinchev, Alexa, Bard, Apple’s Siri Organizations: Amazon Locations: , A.I
The Federal Trade Commission on Friday proposed a new rule that seeks to ban fake online reviews, marking its most aggressive step yet to thwart review fraud. Fake reviews and review abuse have been a persistent issue for online platforms such as Amazon , Google and Yelp . Bad actors often rely on fake reviews to boost their products in search results and drive more sales. Amazon, which has struggled to combat fake reviews on its third-party marketplace, has increasingly gone after fake review brokers and Facebook group administrators in court. The agency has filed several other cases in recent years against companies that used fake reviews to sell products online, and blocked their users from leaving negative reviews.
Persons: Samuel Levine Organizations: Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Protection, Google, Facebook, FTC, Bountiful, CNBC Locations: FTC's
We’re back with another bonus edition of On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it. Last week, I went over how to turn your chatbot into a life coach. Let’s now shift into an area where many have been experimenting with A.I. It turns out, it’s easy to get caught cheating with generative A.I. because it is prone to making stuff up, a phenomena known as “hallucinating.”But generative A.I.
Persons: Let’s Organizations: Tech
Apple CEO Tim Cook stands next to the new Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. The last time technology stocks had a better first half, Apple was touting its Lisa desktop computer, IBM was the most-valuable tech company in the U.S. and Mark Zuckerberg hadn't been born. It's a startling achievement, given what's happened in the tech industry over the past four decades. Meta and Tesla , which both got hammered last year, have more than doubled in value so far in 2023. Nvidia shares soared 190% in the first half, lifting the 30-year-old company's market cap past $1 trillion.
Persons: Tim Cook, Apple, Mark Zuckerberg hadn't, Zuckerberg, Tesla, OpenAI, Bryn Talkington, CNBC's Organizations: Apple, Apple Vision, Apple Worldwide, IBM, Nasdaq, Microsoft, Silicon Valley Bank, Federal Reserve, Meta, Facebook, Google, Nvidia, Capital Management Locations: Cupertino , California, U.S
I joined AutogenAI, a company that has built a language model companies use for bid and tender writing, in July 2022. At university, I focused mostly on analytic philosophy, such as mathematical logic, formal logic, philosophy of science, and linguistics. It is fundamental to understand that when prompting a large language model, you are, in some way, communicating with it. The command, "make this paragraph better," assumes the language model knows whether that means longer, shorter, clearer, or less boring. Though this may be intuitive to you, it isn't explicitly clear to the language model.
Persons: Teodora Danilovic, , I've Organizations: Service, King's College, Serbian Locations: King's College London, London, Serbian, Silicon Valley
She breaks down five prompts she uses in her work and explains why she prefers Bard to ChatGPT. Tidy this upI've found that when I ask Bard to "improve this," the bot strips away any of the quirks that make it human. I give it links to my published work and ask, "What's the common thread in these stories?" One of the few things I miss about offices is turning to someone next to me to ask for writing help. When I need a confidence boost, I'll ask Bard, "Does this make sense?"
Persons: Google's Bard, Bard, ChatGPT, , I've, chatbots, I'm, — it's, It's, It'll, you've, it's Organizations: Service, DR
A Nvidia Corp. HGX H100 artificial intelligence supercomputing graphics processing unit (GPU) at the showroom of the company's offices in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday, June 2, 2023. China's artificial intelligence stocks fell Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. is planning to impose new curbs on shipments of AI chips to China. According to the Journal, U.S. chip makers such as Nvidia will be affected by the move which could happen as early as July. China's CSI artificial intelligence index fell 3% on that news on Wednesday in Asia. The Shenzhen-traded shares of Inspur Electronic Information Industry slumped 10% and Chengdu Information Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences dropped nearly 8%.
Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bard chatbots, Organizations: Nvidia Corp, Wall Street Journal, Journal, Nvidia, CSI, Industry, Chengdu Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, China, Asia, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Hong Kong, U.S
June 28 (Reuters) - Databricks on Wednesday introduced an artificial intelligence assistant intended to help business users ask complicated questions about their corporate data in everyday language. Behind the scenes, an AI system will interpret the question, fetch the needed data, read it and produce an answer. Ali Ghodsi, chief executive of Databricks, hopes that the AI system will be especially useful because it will be trained on a company's own data, rather than generic data from the internet. That should get the AI quickly up to speed on relevant information like the dates of the company's fiscal year or industry-specific jargon, Databricks believes. By training on the customer's specific data, the new Databricks offering "understands the jargon.
Persons: Databricks, Ali Ghodsi, Ghodsi, Stephen Nellis, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Adobe Inc, Intel Corp, Databricks, Thomson Locations: San Francisco
Wall Street analysts continued to favor Meta Platforms (META) over Alphabet (GOOGL), sending shares of META up more than 3% and GOOGL shares just slightly higher Tuesday. Analysts at both firms expressed concern over how the implementation of generative AI might hurt search-related ad revenues and boost expenses. That said, Bernstein and UBS both also acknowledge that longer-term generative AI may very well prove a tailwind for Alphabet. META YTD mountain Meta Platforms YTD performance Meta Platforms, meanwhile, has been getting better reviews. Bottom line Both Meta and Alphabet are likely to benefit from generative AI in the long-term — even if Meta has more clearcut benefits in the near term.
Persons: Bernstein, Bard, MAUs, Instagram, chatbots, Meta, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Beata Zawrzel Organizations: Street, UBS, Citi, Google, Meta, Cannes Lions, Creativity, Instagram, CNBC, Nurphoto, Getty Locations:
The MLPerf benchmark is based on GPT-3, an AI model used to train ChatGPT, the viral chatbot developed by OpenAI and backed by Microsoft (MSFT.O). Habana Labs, an AI chip company acquired by Intel, ran the benchmark in 311.945 minutes with a much smaller system equipped with 384 Gaudi2 chips. "You will get a 1.5X to 2X speed up on the Habana results. So that's when we see Habana Gaudi2 being really competitive and lower priced than H100," Plawner told Reuters. Plawner declined to say how much a Gaudi2 chip costs, but said the industry needs a second supplier of chips for AI training, and the MLPerf results show Intel can fill that need.
Persons: David Kanter, Kanter, Intel's Jordan Plawner, Habana, Plawner, Jane Lanhee Lee, Christopher Cushing Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Reuters, Habana Labs, Intel, Products, Habana, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, Habana
Alphabet The news: Analysts at UBS lowered their rating on Alphabet to neutral from buy but increased their price target to $132 per share from $123. Analysts expect the company's use of generative AI to be the "next leg to shares," and its use of AI tools should help the company "be viewed as an AI winner." Though Meta shares fell 3.5% to $278 each Monday. Reacceleration of revenue growth at Amazon's cloud unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS) into the fourth quarter of this year, should be a catalyst for the stock, analysts said. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.
Persons: Eric Schmidt, Jim, We're, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, there's, Zuckerberg, Roth, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Sebastien Bozon Organizations: CNBC, Nasdaq, UBS, Google, Club, Microsoft, Facebook, Meta, Apple, Amazon Web Services, AFP, Getty Locations: Mulhouse
AI is already sending waves throughout education, with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates saying AI chatbots can teach kids to read in 18 months rather than years. Younger generations are surrounded by digital tools, and experts say it's only a matter of time before classrooms are immersed in AI. AI for routine learning, teachers for personalized lessonsAI, and specifically chatbots backed by programmed large language models, can help students, from primary education to certification programs, self-guide through voluminous materials and tailor their education to specific learning styles. With the rise of AI, teachers can transition from being a general practitioner to more of a specialist, where they can focus on helping kids with particular issues and specific concepts, he added. AI can also help teachers leverage existing knowledge and content, so they can repurpose it and dramatically reduce their workload, Guo said.
Persons: Bill Gates, Sarah Guo, Danny King, King, Guo, It's Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Harvard, MIT Locations: McGraw
Meta, Amazon and Alibaba have said they’re working on generative AI tools, too. As impressive as some generative AI services may seem, they essentially just do pattern matching. Not all AI tools are equally useful and many companies will certainly tout AI features and strategies simply to tap into the current hype cycle. Artificial intelligence is also much broader than ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. Companies will likely need new workers to help them implement and manage AI tools.
Persons: Drake, ChatGPT, Jaap Arriens, Sam Altman, , Sundar Pichai, Kamala Harris, Evan Vucci, OpenAI, Altman, Organizations: CNN — Business, Netflix, Google, Getty, Microsoft, Big Tech, CNN, Companies, Economic, CNET, ChatGPT, White Locations: Silicon, Washington, ChatGPT, United States, Europe
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